[106662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hardware capture platforms
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin Shore)
Fri Aug 8 12:35:34 2008
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:32:53 -0500
From: Justin Shore <justin@justinshore.com>
To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080731163136.GK28903@cgi.jachomes.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> And, note carefully: some "dual-speed hubs" are actually a 10BT hub and
> a 100BT hub *with a switch between them*. I forget which brand I
> caught this on, but it bit me a couple of years back.
3COM Dual-Speed 10/100 hubs were this way. Got bit by that too back in
the day. Technically I think all hubs supporting both 10 and 100 would
have to do this. I can't think of any technical way of getting around
the problem without doing this.
Justin
